George Capalbo is reporting that the Boston PDA User's Group has announced that on Tuesday (23Mar99) at 7pm (EST) that they will be "webcasting" the live installation of an "ADXL202 micromachined tilt sensor/accelerometer onto the system board of a Palm Pilot." The sensor, once installed, allows software to record tilt and g-forces experienced by the PDA, enabling a number of potentially interesting educational, scientific, and recreational applications.

Synergy Solutions has announced version 1.64 of ListMaker for the Palm OS (US$18). You can associate to-do items by custom fields, notes, and dates--plus organize notes in a hierarchical outline format. ListMaker lists can be imported and exported to the native Palm OS Memo or To Do List applications.

ZDNET is reporting that at the recently held CeBIT conference (held in Hanover, Germany) that Oracle was showing off their new "wireless Web content" database solution for mobile devices.

Symbol and QUALCOMM Wireless Business Solutions have announced a new "relationship" to develop and supply a new family of Microsoft Windows CE-based computers for the transportation industry. This relationship will also insure "integration" of QUALCOMM's OmniTRACS mobile tracking and management system with Symbol's Spectrum24 wireless LAN technology. You can learn more via Yahoo! Business News.

George Lawton examines "Vendors Battle over Mobile OS Market" (Geoworks' GEOS, Microsoft's Windows CE, Microwave's OS-9, 3Com's Palm OS, and Symbian's EPOC) in an article that starts of page 13 of IEEE Computer Society's COMPUTER magazine published for Feb99. The Jan99 edition of COMPUTER also had some mobile specific articles--"Wearable Devices: New Ways to Manage Information" (page 57) and "eBook: The Readying Appliance Revolution" (page 65).

-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com)